Important news: the EI8IC website has now moved to its new home at:http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/Please visit me there, and enjoy the fast download speeds, exciting Contester Resources and the best Ham Maps on the web...

Here are just a few ideas of the content you will find on the new site...

** The BEST just got BETTER !!**** NAOMI is now a Windows program**** and its completely FREE to Download **

NAOMI - the 'North American Overlay Mapper'

The Ultimate in US and Canadian Ham Map Systems, NAOMI is a content-rich mapping suite for all Ham Radio enthusiasts. Packed with exciting map tools, NAOMI's features include :

Real-Time Mouse Tracking, with continuous Positional, Grid-Locator, Distance, Bearing, and Long Path details on the Status Bar, in a choice of user-defined formats, fully customised to your own location.

APRS integration displays live position icons, track-lines, and breadcrumbs for all APRS stations on the FindU database. Custom call entry and time filtering.

3 User Lists, where you can keep your own collection of locations, such as waypoints, club or group members, contact points, beacons etc. Easy to create and amend with the special List Editor tools. Plot the positions on the current map, or compare and reference to all other positional data.

Did you try NAOMI before, and but didn't want to turn off your popup-blockers on Internet Explorer for it to work properly? Did you even have a problem of it disappearing altogether?! If so, you'll like the NEW version. It has been re-packaged into a Windows shell, so that it installs and operates just like any other Windows program.

Download for use on your own computer - no Internet connection required.

Did you try GOM before, and but didn't want to turn off your popup-blockers on Internet Explorer for it to work properly? Did you even have a problem of it disappearing altogether?! If so, you'll like the NEW version. It has been re-packaged into a Windows shell, so that it installs and operates just like any other Windows program.

LogView - Graphical Contest Log Analysis

LogView is a post-contest log-visualisation tool, for analysing contest performance. It plots the QSOs in a Cabrillo-format contest-log on to one of 8 different maps by finding the position of each QSO from an online database of about 970,000 W/VE callsigns.

LogView's features include :

Step through a log manually, or animate the contest at a range of speeds and watch QSOs build up in the order that you made them.

Here you will learn about EI8IC, a brief biography of my radio amateur 'career', and be able to see the radio equipment and aerials that I use. You will also be able to view and search my contest logs without wasting time downloading a Java-Applet.

• HF Contesting

The biggest of the section, reflecting my main interest. Here, in amongst nearly 50 pages, you can see a Calendar of Major HF contests that are coming up. You'll learn about ways of Budget Contesting that won't empty the pocket book. You'll browse through numerous Tips and Techniques. You'll read the Contest Stories from some of the World's Major Contesters. You'll see the latest VK4EM Contest-Bandplans. The Topband Frequency Allocations are here too.

• Irish Contesting

Here you can view the results of EI entries to a variety of contests, arranged both alphabetically and chronologically. You can find out how to GUARANTEE a No.1 place in the Irish record books. And find out more about Irish Contesters too...

• Buy And Sell It

Here you will find an on-line service to help EI-hams buy, sell or exchange radios, electronic equipment and components. It is completely free to read the ads, respond to them, place a new one, or cancel it once you've sold the goods. So why not dust off that old transceiver, PSU or antenna and sell it to a ham who really needs it !

• Ham Links

Every site has links, and who am I to buck tradition ? You'll find my selection grouped under the headings of Antennas, Contests, Propagation, Software, and Towers. Unlike most websites, each link here has its own introduction, telling you something about the site before you go there.

• Overlay Maps

The newest of the sections on this website, these pages showcase the most exciting development in the field of mapping for Amateur Radio: Overlay Maps, and include an introduction, feature list, and screen-shots of the North American Overlay Mapper, and the Global Overlay Mapper.

• Ham Maps

The most popular section on this website, with a range of maps created by me for the Ham community. There's CQ Zone maps, IARU Zone maps, ITU Region maps, Great Circle maps, Prefix maps, Grid Locator maps, Time Zone maps, even a map of Irish Lighthouses.

• APRS Maps

This section represents a new field in Amateur Radio, but one that is growing fast in popularity: APRS - the Amateur Position Reporting System. A short introduction is followed by live maps of Irish APRS stations, maps for use with the FindU APRS server, maps for use with the UI-View APRS program, and a range of free APRS logos for your website.

• Flags

This section showcases a package of over 450 flags, available for use in your own project or website. All countries are represented, plus all US state flags, Australian state